It's no effort for power shovel to do its work. - Mere man is a weakling compared to the energy of the huge power shovels and trucks used on recent earthy removal operations at the Grand Coulee dam site. The upper picture shows the giant crane and...

It's no effort for power shovel to do its work. - Mere man is a weakling compared to the energy of the huge power shovels and trucks used on recent earthy removal operations at the Grand Coulee dam site. The upper picture shows the giant crane and...

Coulee dam - Dragline cuts river channel. - Widens diversion gap in west dike--Grouting begun on east. - A slowly widening channel is being opened for the diversion of the river, at the upstream end of the flooded west side area, as a dragline...

Contractors start digging deep into Grand Coulee hills. - The biggest maw eating into the buildings at the Grand Coulee dam site is found on this Le Tourneau carryall, pictured here, hitched onto a huge caterpillar tractor. Two of these "cats."...

Dragline cuts river channel. - Widens diversion gap in west dike--grouting begun on east. - A slowly widening channel is being opened for the diversion of the river, at the upstream end of the flooded west side area, as a dragline steadily scoops...

Shovels biting the dirt again. - First loads of additional yardage hauled to fill by Ross crews. - The huge scoops of two-yard shovels operated by Matt Ross on the Okanogan shore of the Columbia bit into the top soil once again yesterday afternoon,...

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